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26a by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
**WINNER OF THE ORANGE AWARD FOR NEW WRITERS**A remarkable first novel...vibrant...exotic Sunday TimesDiscover the critically acclaimed debut from the Womens Prize-shortlisted author of Ordinary PeopleIdentical twins, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanb ...Show more
A House for Alice by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
The new novel from Diana Evans, the prizewinning and much-loved author of Ordinary PeopleAlice wants to go home to die but is not certain when this will be. Her three daughters are divided on whether she stays or goes, and tasked with realising her dream of a house in Nigeria, conflict stirs and old wou ...Show more
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
'You can take a leap, do something off the wall, something reckless. It's your last chance, and most people miss it.' South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her but, in t ...Show more
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" Books of 2018 Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love. Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights w ...Show more
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love. Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling th ...Show more
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
'I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen about this book. It's so so good - realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded me' Dolly Alderton, The High Low Two London couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her bu ...Show more
The Wedding by Dorothy West; Diana Evans (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'Timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, age, and gender' Emma Garman, Paris Review Set on a bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the ...Show more
The Wonder by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
From the acclaimed author of 26a, comes a dazzling new novel about the fight to achieve one's dream, and an unsolved disappearance at the heart of a family. As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London nar ...Show more
The Wonder by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London narrow boat with his down-to-earth sister Denise, he secretly investigates the contents of an old wardrobe, in which he finds relics from the Midnight Ballet, a ...Show more
Twenty-Six A (26A) by Diana Evans
Category: Fiction
Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony. Their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on her Yorkshire pudding and has mysterious ways of ...Show more
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